He plucked a hair from his arm.
There are dog hairs all over my coat.
The hair on her arms is blond.
He has a lot of hair on his chest.
He got his hair cut last week.
He has a thick head of hair.
a balding man who is losing his hair
He won the race by a hair.
He was a hair off on the count.
Recent Examples on the WebSome comments say that this particular Bissell pick works better than other handheld vacuums at sucking up hairs and crumbs and holding onto them instead of spitting them back out.—Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2024 Talan, a seventeen-year-old football player with a blunt chin and wavy brown hair, had been linked to Lord’s death; his nineteen-year-old brother, Kyler, had recently been arrested on drug and assault charges.—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024 Cheerleaders' hair must be worn down Even during rehearsals, hair must be flowing.—Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 21 June 2024 In 2001, there were only 62 mature Iberian lynx – medium-sized, mottled brown cats with characteristic pointed ears and a pair of beard-like tufts of facial hair – on the Iberian Peninsula.—Teresa Medrano and James Brooks, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for hair
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Old English hǣr; akin to Old High German hār hair
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Time Traveler
The first known use of hair was
before the 12th century
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